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In The Care of Strangers - $12.50
This is a book for parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, husbands and wives, caregivers, - anyone who deals with aging loved ones. Authors Dr. Calvin Langmade and Linda Pischke speak openly about our fears of growing old and facing death apart from family and friends.

Fighting for Your Marriage
These are freestanding materials designed to help you better enjoy you relationship now... or to love your way back to the excitement you had while you were still dating! Created by Drs. Scott Stanley, Howard Markman, and Susan Blumberg, these materials are invaluable in bringing insight and closeness to your relationship.

Fighting for Your Marriage Audio Cassettes - $59.95
In these audio cassettes you will find the research based communication skills of PREP. We also reveal other essentials of a happy marriage - how to foster commitment, make time for fun, how to forgive and more. Six audiotape set. Six hours.

Fighting for Your Marriage Video Set - $149.95
The four tape video set can help you maintain a lifelong friendship. You will discover how to talk, how to listen, how to solve problems together and bring closeness to your relationship. Includes real couples discovering the PREP difference.

  • Video 1: Ground Rules for Fighting and Loving (36 minutes)
  • Video 2: Using the Speaker Listener Technique to Manage Conflicts (30 minutes)
  • Video 3: Problem-Solving Made Easy (50 minutes)
  • Video 4: Working through Hidden Issues to Promote Intimacy (50 minutes)

The Christian's Companion Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage - $5.00
This is a booklet to complement the secular PREP materials. While secular PREP teaches research-based insights that are consistent with revealed truth, this booklet is for those who desire a deeper understanding of these concepts from a Christian perceptive. Hence, we designed this booklet to give you a Scriptural context for the material in the secular version of PREP. 27 pages.

About the Authors:

  • Scott M. Stanley, PhD. is a noted marital expert, Co-Director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, a clinical psychologist and expert on commitment in marriage.
  • Howard J. Markman, PhD. is Director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, founder of the PREP approach, and a recognized authority on the prediction and prevention of marital distress.
  • Susan L. Blumberg, PhD. is a psychologist who works with families and couples, and has focused on training and research in the PREP approach.

LifesignLifesign ® - $89.95
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DietMate ® - $197.50
DietMate is the fun, effective way to change the way you eat and exercise! DietMateDietMate is like having a nutritionist, an exercise trainer, a weight loss specialist, a cholesterol and hypertension treatment expert, and a wise, supportive friend always by your based side. It's a program just for you, on your age, sex, height, weight, cholesterol, and blood pressure goals, lifestyle preferences and exercise. DietMate even calls you by your name and remembers your birthday! DietMate balances moderate exercise with gentle changes in eating hundreds of patterns. It offers you nutritionally balanced meals (all real food), tracks your calories (those you consume and those you burn with exercise), and other nutrient intake. DietMate monitors your cholesterol and blood pressure and reminds you when to see your Doctor, if necessary. your progress and automatically adjusts your program to DietMate tracks optimize meeting your goals. Need anything else..? Oh yes, DietMate even compiles your shopping list for you!

Life Skills Series
This series of books is about the skills you need for getting through life. To get from beginning to end without falling flat on your face and to achieve some dignity and some self-satisfaction, you need the basic life skills that these books emphasize.

Accepting Yourself Accepting Yourself:  Liking yourself all of the time - $5.95
Most people try to achieve self-acceptance by looking outward to their successes and the approval of others. That's backwards and doesn't work. Here you focus on the goodness within you. Building self-esteem from the inside gives you true independence and rock-like security. Enter yourself and discover the goodness of your heart. You'll say "yes" to yourself when you read this book.
ISBN#l-56583-005-9 64 pps.
Communicating Communicating: Speaking and listening to end misunderstanding and promote friendship - $5.95
Here's the course in communication you never had. You'll learn: How to create the rhythm of communication. How to listen so the other  feels beard. How to self-reveal so your needs can be met. How to share at deep levels. The skills you learn here you can apply immediately to every relationship you have - business, work, family, friend, lover. Communicating makes your relationships come alive.
ISBN#1-56583-007-5 60 pps.
Reducing Anger Reducing Anger: Harnessing passion and fury to work for you, not against others - $5.95
With this book you'll learn:
     • How anger works.
     • The purposes it serves.
     • Tools to reduce it.
     • Ways to express it.
You will see how anger signals a need you have that's not getting met. Discover how to take that strong energy and use it to gain what you need to live happily.
ISBN #l-56583-009-1, 64 pps.
Meeting Life Head On Meeting Life Head On: Moving into life with courage - not backing away in fear - $5.95
Face life's events and don't back away. That's the message here! Instead of closing your eyes, going away or denying what's real - though it might feel good for the moment -those strategies lead to death more often than to life. Discover the attitudes and beliefs you need to face everything in your life head on. Then go for it!
ISBN #l-56583-006-7 60 pps.
Overcoming Fear Overcoming Fear: Reaching for your dreams and knowing peace of mind - $5.95
By understanding fear you can take power over it. You will learn the seven basic causes of fear and see how they operate in your life. Four steps in controlling and eliminating fear are: 1. Becoming aware of fear. 2. Thinking in non-fearful ways. 3. Taking definite action. 4. Learning to relax.
ISBN#1-56583-010-S 62 pps.
Managing Stress Managing Stress: Learning to pace your chase through life - $5.95
Here are the tools you need to help you reduce the stress in your life and take charge of the three key areas that affect your happiness. With these tools you will:
     • Increase your physical health.
     • Improve your mental well-being.
     • Build your relationships with others.
Explore the causes of your own stress, and discover the simple rules for responding to stress easily. Included are five practical checklists to reveal your goals and give you what you need to make the changes that count.
ISBN#1-56583-003-2 64 pps.
Thinking Reasonably Thinking Reasonably: Reaching emotional peace through mental toughness - $5.95
Change your feelings and behaviors by taking charge of your thinking. You'll find here the basic tools to think your way through the strains and pains of daily living. Learn to
     • identify sabotaging thoughts,
     • challenge and change those thoughts, and
     • create new feelings and behaviors that energize you.
Discover the 10 thoughts that help you overcome suffering and lead you to peace of mind.
ISBN#1-56583-004-0 60 pps.
Being Intimate Being Intimate: Achieving union with others without losing yourself - $5.95
The road to intimacy is cluttered with traps and hurdles. Here you get a road map so you can manage your way to deeper closeness. You'll learn how to share mutually in order to grow together. To do so you need specific attitudes for intimacy, such as respect, sensitivity and loyalty. And you need intimate behaviors to hold you together. When you make it happen, ' there's nothing better than deep intimacy.
ISBN#l-56583-008-3 60pps.
Defeating Depression Defeating Depression: Lifting yourself from sadness into joy - $5.95
Depression is psychology's common cold. It touches everyone. Here you learn the main causes of depression and how they interfere with your happiness. You discover how to stop your downward spiral into depression and feel empowered to break free from its tight grip. With these tools you can let go of helplessness and take charge again of your life.
ISBN#l-56583-011-3 60pps.
Resolving Conflict Resolving Conflict: Learning how you both can win and keep your relationship - $5.95
Under every conflict lies unmet needs. Learn the power of needs in your relationships and what to do when those needs are not being met. To resolve the conflicts that arise you must:
    1. Communicate accurately.
    2. Arm yourself with specific beliefs.
    3. Take definite action toward the other person. The skill of resolving conflicts is a must to enjoy fulfilling relationships.
ISBN #l-56583-012-1 60pps.
Self-Esteem for Children Self-Esteem for Children - $8.95
Self-Esteem for Children first takes you on a brief journey unraveling the processes your child uses to develop positive or negative self-esteem. Then Dr. Olen shows you specifically how to improve your child's self-worth. Some of the powerful tools he explores are:
     • Setting boundaries to increase self-worth
     • Tracking with your child's thoughts and feelings
     • Increasing optimistic views of self and others
     • Focusing on your child's process, not content
     • Sending positive messages to the fight brain Creating positive self-esteem is like giving birth to your child a second time. It will lead him or her to a vital and happy life.
ISBN #l-56583-016-4 125pps.
Parenting for the First Time Parenting for the First Time - $8.95
Parenting for the First Time takes you beyond the physical preparation for having a baby. It teaches you what to do, say and think from day one, so your child becomes the best he or she can be. A few of the principles Dr. Olen shares:
     • Talk and listen to baby
     • Use gentle touch
     • Set boundaries early on
     • Control TV from the beginning
This book gets you going in a healthy direction with your child.
But more than helping your baby grow up well, Dr. Olen shows you, the new parent, how to take care of yourself. He gives you the tools to:
     • Manage your own feelings
     • Keep your marriage top priority
     • Make a commitment to take time for yourself
     • Get rest and exercise
A perfect book to read just before your baby comes and to keep reading over and over.
ISBN #l-56583-016-6 123pps.
The Thoughtful Art of Discipline The Thoughtful Art of Discipline - $8.95
Discipline cuts two ways. Done carelessly and with anger, it keeps misbehavior alive. Done thoughtfully, it leads to responsible decision-making and action for both parent and child. The Thoughtful Art of Discipline is a valuable down-to-earth resource that:
     • Gives you the tools every parent needs
     • Uncovers the real reasons for problem behavior
     • Teaches you the four key approaches to discipline
     • Shows you how and when to use authority, logical consequences, and reverse psychology
     • Lets you keep your cool while getting the behavior you want
Develop the art of discipline - and give your child the gift of responsible living!
ISBN #l-56583-016-8 124pps.

About the Author
Helping others develop the skills to live happy and productive lives has been Dale Olen's passion for the last 20 years. He is the director of the Life Skills Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an outpatient mental health clinic. In his counseling, he has been able to teach life skills in a personal and powerful way. Because of his desire to teach these skills to more people, he brought his personal and practical therapeutic style to the classroom, business office and lecture hall. Dr. Olen has become a nationally known lecturer. He also teaches these life skills through his writing.

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